Plaint

That final masque does have one of the best tunes — the "Plaint," or lament, sung hauntingly by Emmanuelle de Negri.

Long Night's Journey Heidi Waleson 2010

That final masque does have one of the best tunes — the "Plaint," or lament, sung hauntingly by Emmanuelle de Negri.

Long Night's Journey Heidi Waleson 2010

That final masque does have one of the best tunes — the "Plaint," or lament, sung hauntingly by Emmanuelle de Negri.

Long Night's Journey Heidi Waleson 2010

That final masque does have one of the best tunes — the "Plaint," or lament, sung hauntingly by Emmanuelle de Negri.

Long Night's Journey Heidi Waleson 2010

As was also true for "Plaint," Mr. Wenders makes dramatic use of Wuppertal's distinctive monorail that snakes through the city.

A Posthumous Spotlight on a Force of Nature Robert Greskovic 2011

I could have just cited the book's title and left it at that, a title written in 18th-century style for whatever reason: "LOSING IT—in which an aging professor laments his shrinking BRAIN, which he flatters himself formerly did him Noble Service, a Plaint, tragi-comical, historical, vengeful, sometimes satirical and thankful in six parts, if his Memory does yet serve."

Raging Against Aging Henry Allen 2011

Mr. Wenders takes some cues from a 1990 film Bausch herself directed that took as its overriding scheme the four seasons; in English, that 104-minute movie is called "The Plaint of the Empress."

A Posthumous Spotlight on a Force of Nature Robert Greskovic 2011

Many of Mr. Wenders's scenes, like all those in "Plaint," take the viewer to incidents enacted by the dancers in natural rather than stage-set environments.

A Posthumous Spotlight on a Force of Nature Robert Greskovic 2011

In one, which closely mirrors a "Plaint" incident, Mr. Wenders sends wraith-like Helena Pikon, wearing one of the long gowns so favored by Bausch's design collaborators, over a lawn covered by autumn leaves, which she scatters around her by way of the noisy electric leaf blower strapped to her back.

A Posthumous Spotlight on a Force of Nature Robert Greskovic 2011

Alain de Lille's Plaint of Nature was once canonized only because of its connection to Chaucer, and now has been de-canonized for its homophobia, both rather silly reasons to include/remove it.

On Literary Canonization Richard Nokes 2006